St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-02

high living and then skips to Canada, where
he finds the bank president, who has .preced-
ed him. They are joined by their friends
who helped them to use up the bank assets.
The principal scene Of the play is laid in
Montreal, where the sports Of the ice carni-
val are clearly worked in and made to fur
nish great deal of amusement for an audi
ence. There is sure enough tobbogan slide
on the stage, on which MEsTAYER with his
1850 pounds avoidupois takes slide with
ludicrousl effort Miss VAUGHN takes the
part Of PERSIA the heiress, and the vary
ing scenes give her an opportunity for intro
ducing some new vocal specialties.
tt 49,
With DENNIS RYAN's disclaimer of connec-
ton with the new theater scheme, the bot
tom seems to have fallen out of the enter
prise. Talk is cheap, but it costs money to
build theaters. You can always find some
person willing and anxious to build theaters,
if somebody else will furnish the money.
But there comes the rub. 1t is not until there
is some certainty of good dividend that
moneyedmen can afford to put their capital in
buildings And there are not many moneyed
men in st. Paul who are living here for their
health exclusively.
D 49,
That new theater, and one that will be
credit to the city, will be built in time, is an
assured fact. 1t will not be built, how
ever, until the time is ripe for it, nor
will it be built by adventures, who have
nothing to risk and all to gain by any
sort of speculation. The plans are being
matured by company of gentlemen who
have the capital, and who propose to make
sure Of solid investment when they place
their money in theater building, or any
other kind of a building.
49,
"The Great Pink PEARL which created
sensation in London last season, has been
put on at the New York Lyceum and is MAX
ing decided hit. The piece is the joint pro-
duction of CECIL RALEIGH and r, G. CoRToN,
and was produced at the Lyceum last week
under the immediate personal supervision of
Mr. RALEIGH.
Miss ETA HAWKINS was in the sphinx
Pearl" cast at the Lyceum performance last
week. She took the part of lodging house
maid in an English garnet, and according to
the verdict of the New York press made de-
cfded hit. In its criticism of the performance
the World makes mention of Miss HAWKINS,
and says: SIT is d long time since we have
had "a soubrette whose legs were so untram-
meled by skirts or whose low comedy was so
ebullient. She won her audience at her first
exit and left laughing regret at her LAST
xx*
The melancholy days are come to LILLIAN
RUSSELL. She is rapidly falling into the
scare and yellow leaf of stage existence. The
editor of Truth says: 81 saw LILLIAN Rus
SELL the other day in one of the theaters, and
was astonished to see how excessively fat
she has grown. She must weigh at the very
least 100 pounds now, and she looks old and
worried. 1t is one thing to be successful
prima donna and it is quite something else
to be has BEEN Once she had everything
at her command-youth, beauty and talent.
Of later years she lost the youth and beauty,
but she had DUFF. am afraid now she has
lost DUFF as well. The world is beginning
to turn its back on the gingerbread creature
who once gloried in her soubriquet of Queen
of the Dudes.'
The Eastern critics are giving CHARLEY
HoYT's new play, "a Hole in the Ground a
terrible peppering. 1t is about time that
HoYT was getting roast from somebody He
is a badly-spoiled child of the drama, and
deserves good spanking. The fact is, HoYT
exhausted himself on his effort, ga Parlor
Match" and all his subsequent productions
have been a very feeble imitation of the
original copy.
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LILY Posi- has taken ALICE VINcENTs place
in the Carleton Opera company. Miss VIM
CENT Is singing in choir in one of the fash
ionable uptown churches in New York.
FANNIE RICE is still leading lady of the Garlic
ton company, and CLARA WISDOM, ROSE
BEAUDET, CHARLIE DREW, JAY TAYLOR. BOB
BRoDERIcK and the other principals of the
old casts remain with the trOuDe
**
Among the stage debutantes of the coming
season is Miss KITTY CHEATHAM, Tennessee
girl, who comes to the front with the strong
est backing and the greatest promise of any
young star since MARY ANDERsoNs debut
Miss CHEATHAM is a daughter of ex-Mayor
DICK CHEATHAM, of Nashville, and grand
daughter of ex-Gov. WILLIAM TRoUsDALE,
famous in the annals of Tennessee and the
Southwest Miss CHEATHAM is the rising
luminary of the New York Casino company,
and is cousin of the beautiful young lady
OF her name who captured the hearts of so
many of the St. Paul youths while the South
ern bellies were visiting Minnetonka last
summer.
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When FORREST passed away his place on
the stage was taken by the Inflated McCUL-
seems to have fallen on ROBERT DOWNING,
who is playing 1.-THE Gladiator to delighted
audiences in the Eastern cities and winning
laurels at every performance.
~
The success which crowns DOWNING as the
successor Of JOHN MCCULLOUGH does not fit
A. P. BURBANK in his effort to succeed RAY
MoND in comedy. BURBANK has been play
ing Col. Mulberry Sellers in New York and
made flat failure of it. The ''Col Sellers''
that BURBANK plays is a revised edition of
the one that RAYMOND played. MARK TWAIN
is the dramatic revisor, and that is probably
the cause of the failure. MARK TWAIN can
write humor but he knows nothing about
dramatizing.
MARY ANDERSON has captiyated the En-
glish people to such an extent that she seems
disposed to linger among them. She has
opened another season in London and is very
popular. Our MARY is reputed to be the idol
of the common people OF London. While
she excites polite enthusiasm in the dress
circles she sets the galleries to roaring and
yelling whenever she appears on the stage.
SARAH BERNHARDT denies the story that
she made pilgrimage to the grotto of Lour-
DIES for the double purpose of having her sins
prayed away and her voice recovered. She
says she was travelling across the country in
a post chaise on her way to Catarets in search
of rest. On her way she passed the miracu-
lous grotto and found an immense assem-
blage kneeling in prayer. She directed the
coachman to stop, and, alighting, she re-
specially made her way through the crowd
on foot, when she was recognized by some
one. Hence the fantastic story about her
pilgrimage to the grotto.